Managing water [[electronic resource] ] : avoiding crisis in California / / Dorothy Green |
Autore | Green Dorothy <1929-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2007 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (337 p.) |
Disciplina | 363.6/109794 |
Soggetto topico |
Water-supply - California - Management
Water quality - California |
Soggetto non controllato |
calfed
california conservation elected officials environmental activism government and governing groundwater imported water lakes los angeles reclamation resource management reuse rivers storm water streams sustainability united states of america wastewater water contaminants water management accountability water management water policy issues water quality regulatory agency water suppliers water systems water treatment water use efficiency water watershed management |
ISBN |
9786612360121
1-282-36012-4 0-520-94122-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. Los Angeles Area Water Supplies -- 2. Water Management: Who's in Charge? -- 3. Water Use Efficiency -- 4. Drinking Water Quality -- 5. State Policy and the Los Angeles Area -- GLOSSARY -- NATIVE PLANT RESOURCES -- WEBSITES OF INTEREST -- SUGGESTED READINGS -- INDEX |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910810357103321 |
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Public Will, Activism and Climate Change |
Autore | Maibach Ed |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Frontiers Media SA, 2020 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 electronic resource (123 p.) |
Soggetto topico |
Communication studies
Media studies |
Soggetto non controllato |
climate change communication
environmental activism consumer activism public will strategic communication |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910557757403321 |
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Risk Mitigation, Vulnerability Management and Resilience under Disasters |
Autore | Sapountzaki Kalliopi |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Basel, : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2022 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 electronic resource (222 p.) |
Soggetto topico |
Technology: general issues
History of engineering & technology |
Soggetto non controllato |
disaster risk
vulnerability monitoring risk assessment disaster management UN-ISDR SDGs telluric risks climate-related risks risk awareness risk management volcanic islands alternative action organizations environmental activism solidarity Europe crisis sustainability alternative consumerism alternative lifestyles action organization analysis exposure systemic vulnerability risk-sensitive spatial development multi-risk seismic crisis seismic emergency information and communication uncertainty risk perception governance culture Greece Japan seismic risk management disaster risk awareness migrants disaster preparedness earthquake flood Italy Turkey Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis AHP GIS flood-hazard Megalo Rema Eastern Attica elderly pandemic corpus-assisted discourse studies media coverage compromise disaster risk reduction (DRR) motor of change setting priorities strategic focus teleology fire prevention fire statistics forest fires public participation |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910576879203321 |
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Standing up for a sustainable world : voices of change / / edited by Claude Henry, Johan Rockström, Nicholas Stern |
Autore | Claude Henry |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Northampton : , : Edward Elgar Publishing, , 2020 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (496 pages) |
Disciplina | 338.927 |
Soggetto topico |
Sustainable development
Environmental economics Biodiversity conservation Sustainability Climatic changes Environmental degradation Biodiversity - Climatic factors Biodiversity - Effects of air pollution on |
Soggetto non controllato |
sustainable development
resilience human wellbeing environmental activism poverty reduction inclusive development |
ISBN | 1-80037-178-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Contents: Preface: A collective book project - the last chance? Voluntary actors in an ecological and economic transition -- Part I: Introduction -- Section 1. Scientific backgrounds -- 1. Science, society and a sustainable future / Johan Rockström and Nicholas Stern -- 2. Conservation psychology and climate change / Susan Clayton -- 3. Capitalism and the curse of external effects / Claude Henry -- Section 2. Setting the scene -- 4. Costa Rica as pioneer of a green social contract / Monica Araya -- 5. The carbon tax in Sweden / Thomas Sterner -- 6. Lessons from the Obama White House: how climate policy really gets done / Alice C. Hill -- 7. Climate policy in China: an overview / Ye Qi, Xiaofan Zhao and Nicholas Stern -- 8. The Paris Agreement on climate change: What legacy? / Laurence Tubiana and Emmanuel Guerin -- Part II: Defenders -- 9. Introduction to Part II / Jonathan Watts -- 10. To protect the Amazon, defend the people of the forest / Maria do Socorro Costa Silva -- 11. Of chainsaws and grace: Direct action by eco-vigilantes in the Philippines / Bobby Chan -- 12. Social justice goes hand in hand with environmental campaigns - and not just in Africa / Phyllis Omido -- 13. Living our values: Using art and technology to campaign for nature in Turkey / Birhan Erkutlu and Tuba Günal -- Part III: Litigants -- 14. Introduction to Part III / Marie Toussaint and Claude Henry -- 15. The Urgenda case in the Netherlands: creating a revolution through the courts / Marjan Minnesma -- 16. Juliana v. United States and the global youth-led legal campaign for a safe climate / Patti Moore, Danny Noonan and Erik Woodward -- 17. How policymakers imperil coming generations' future and what to do about it / Ridhima Pandey -- 18. Protecting the rights of future generations through climate litigation: lessons from the struggle against deforestation in the Colombian Amazon / Camila Bustos, Valentina Rozo-Ángel and Gabriela Eslava-Bejarano -- 19. People's climate case - families and youth take the EU to court over its failure to address the climate crisis / E. Deville, L. Dubois Gökahin -- 20. Climate change claim on behalf of New Zealand's indigenous Maori peoples / Michael Sharp, Nicole Smith and Tania Te Whenua -- 21 France: L'affaire du siècle : the story of a mass mobilization for climate / Marie Toussaint -- Part IV: Coming generations on the front line -- 22. Introduction to Part IV / Claude Henry -- 23. Fridays for Future - FFF Europe and beyond / Anuna De Wever, Luisa Neubauer and Katrien van der Heyden -- 24. The Fridays for Future movement in Uganda and Nigeria / Hilda Flavia Nakabuye, Sadrach Nirere and Adenike Titilope Oladosu -- 25. The origins of school strike 4 climate NZ / Sophie Handford and Raven Maeder -- 26. 350.org 231 / William "Bill" McKibben -- 27. How to become an engineer in the ecological crisis? / Antoine Bizien, Elsa Deville and Lucas Dubois -- 28. Ecological aspirations of youth: How higher education could fall between two stools / Alessia Lefébure -- Part V: Entrepreneurs -- 29. Introduction to Part V / Nicholas Stern and Charlotte Taylor -- 30. Catching mighty north sea winds / Claude Henry -- 31. Providing electricity from rice husk in rural India / Claude Henry -- 32. Heat pumps for decarbonizing buildings / Dominique Bureau -- 33. The rise of supercapacitors: Making electric vehicles as convenient as ordinary ones / Claude Henry -- 34. From scooter to boat: innovations in electric transport in cities of Southeast Asia / Pippo Ranci -- 35. The third attempt at the electric car might be the successful one / Geoffrey Heal -- 36. Solar cookstoves for adaptation to degrading natural conditions / Claude Henry -- 37. Carbon capture from ambient air: a brake on climate change? / Claude Henry -- 38. Ecological engineering in coastal protection / Claude Henry -- 39. Better to corrupt plastics than the environment / Pippo Ranci -- 40. Drip irrigation: Daniel Hillel's legacy / Claude Henry -- 41. Making the case for agroecological innovation: the need for technical but also political entrepreneurs / Sébastien Treyer -- 42. Radical transformation in global supply chains: can new business models be based on biodiversity in the agrifood industry? / Sébastien Treyer -- 43. Ethan Brown - the protein revolutionary / Geoffrey Heal -- 44. How to make a sustainable living in a tropical forest: the case of Suruí Indians in the Amazon Rainforest - success under threat / Claude Henry -- 45. Migrants to repopulate depopulated villages - Riace in Calabria, Italy and its mayor Mimmo Lucano / Pippo Ranci -- 46. How Loos-en-gohelle, a derelict mining town in the north of France, has become a standard in sustainable development / Michel Berry -- Part VI: Investors -- 47. Introduction to Part VI / Nicholas Stern and Charlotte Taylor -- 48. Unleashing the power of financial markets for the green transition / Jeremy Oppenheim and Catharina Dyvik -- 49. The case for fossil fuel divestment / Stephen B. Heintz -- 50. How can finance be used to combat climate change? / Alain Grandjean -- 51. China's pioneering green finance / Ma Jun -- Part VII: Communicators -- 52. Introduction to Part VII / Johan Rockström -- 53. Communicating climate change science to diverse audiences / Asmeret Asefaw Berhe -- 54. Global marine fisheries: avoiding further collapses / Philippe Cury and Daniel Pauly -- 55. Why are we so much more afraid of Covid-19 than of climate change? Early lessons from a health crisis for the communication of climate change / François Gemenne and Anneliese Depoux -- 56. Communicating the climate emergency: Imagination, emotion, action / Genevieve Guenther -- 57. Climate change: From research to communication / Jean Jouzel -- 58. Communicating biodiversity loss and its link to economics / Georgina M. Mace -- 59. Helping trusted messengers find their voice on climate change / Edward Maibach -- 60. From climate scientist to climate communicator: a process of evolution / Michael E. Mann -- 61. Communicating science beyond the ivory tower / David R. Montgomery -- Index. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910427733403321 |
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